Lucas 17:5-32 RVR1960

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 17:8

Luke 17:8 We want some method of investigating spiritual ideas which will give us enough of results to satisfy the intellect, not fully, but sufficiently to permit the spirit to go on in its course without the sacrifice of the intellect. For we are bound to educate and bring into play all the capabilities of our nature; and to sacrifice any one of them is to injure the whole of our being. I. There is a spiritual world as extended as humanity, and to assert its existence is no more to beg the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 17:10

Luke 17:10 Reliance on Religious Observances. Consider how this danger of over-reliance on religious observances is counteracted in the case of serious minds. I. The evil in question supposing it to exist is singularly adapted to be its own corrective. It can only do us injury when we do not know its existence. When a man feels and knows the intrusion of self-satisfied and self-complacent thoughts, here is something at once to humble him and destroy that complacency. To know of a weakness is... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 17:15-18

Luke 17:15-18 The Ten Lepers. There are, speaking broadly, three chief reasons for unthankfulness on the part of man towards God I. An indistinct idea or an under-estimate of the service that He renders us. II. A disposition, whether voluntary or not, to lose sight of our Benefactor. III. The notion that it does not matter much to Him whether we acknowledge His benefits or not. Gratitude is our bounden duty, because it is the acknowledgment of a hard fact the fact that all things come of God;... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 17:19

Luke 17:19 I. Of the unthankfulness which so seriously depresses and blights our whole modern Christian life, one reason, in many cases, is that we do not see our great Benefactor. I do not forget that some of us may feel true gratitude to those human friends who have been kind to us in years past, and who are now out of sight. But take men in the mass, and it is quite otherwise. Little by little, as the years pass, too many of us forget the benefits that we owe to the dead. The pressure, the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 17:20

Luke 17:20 Secrecy and Suddenness of Divine Visitations. I. It is impossible that the visitations of God should be other than secret and sudden, considering how the world goes on in every age. Men who are plunged in the pursuits of active life are no judges of its course and tendency on the whole. They confuse great events with little, and measure the importance of objects, as in perspective, by the mere standard of nearness or remoteness. It is only at a distance that one can take in the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 17:20-21

Luke 17:20-21 God's Kingdom Invisible. The true character of God's kingdom is ghostly and inward. It has its seat in the hearts of men, in their moral habits, in their thoughts, actings, and affections, in the form and the bias of their moral being; the visible forms we see are but the shadow of the reality. God's kingdom is the obedience of the unseen spirit of man to the unseen Lord of all. We see, then, what it is; and we see, therefore, how we may fall into a fault like that of the Jews,... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 17:21

Luke 17:21 Let us consider the kingdoms which are not material, but of a finer substance than matter, and whose forces and powers are represented by other than materialistic ones. Of these kingdoms we mention three I. The kingdom of Mind. (1) Its creations are immortal; (2) its kings suffer no dethronement. At the motion of their hands our thoughts start up for service. Their kingdom is like a sea that has no shore; it is limitless. The race of man, irrespective of local boundaries,... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 17:32

Luke 17:32 We have in this text a warning of a peculiar character; we see in it a type of the just wrath of God against those who, having been once mercifully delivered, shall afterwards fall back. Lot's wife was, by a distinguishing election of God, and by the hands of angels, saved from the overthrow of the wicked. We by the same deep counsel of God have been translated from death to life. She perished in the very way of safety. "Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall."... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Luke 17:5-6

DISCOURSE: 1551THE IMPORTANCE OF FAITHLuke 17:5-6. And the Apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith. And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard-seed, ye might say unto this sycamine-tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea: and it should obey you.THE Gospel is truly “a doctrine according to godliness:” its precepts are as much superior to heathen morals, as its doctrines are to the heathen mythology. The forgiveness of injuries is required of the... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Luke 17:10

DISCOURSE: 1552THE OBEDIENT SERVANTLuke 17:10. So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.PRIDE is deeply rooted in the heart of man. It was that which first instigated him to disobedience; he wished to be as God [Note: Genesis 3:5.]. Since his fall it leads him openly to cast off his allegiance to the Supreme Being, and to become a god unto himself, independent, self-seeking,... read more

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 17:8

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 17:10

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 17:15-18

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 17:19

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 17:20

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 17:20-21

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 17:21

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 17:32

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Luke 17:5-6

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Luke 17:10

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